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>Upgrading Your linux Distribution mini-HOWTO</TITLE
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NAME="AEN2">Upgrading Your linux Distribution mini-HOWTO</H1
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NAME="AEN4"><H3
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CLASS="AUTHOR"
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NAME="AEN5"
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>Greg Louis</A
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> glouis@dynamicro.on.ca<br>
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>Copyright © 1996, 2002 by Dynamicro Consulting Limited</P
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NAME="AEN15"><P
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> Hints and tips on upgrading from one linux distribution to
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another. This is version 1.2, 2002-03-09.
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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>IMPORTANT!!! Disclaimer and Copyright</A
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>2. <A
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HREF="x22.html"
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>Changes since version 1.1</A
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>3. <A
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HREF="x36.html"
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>Introduction</A
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>3.1. <A
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HREF="x36.html#AEN38"
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>How to slay and reincarnate your linux box!</A
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>3.2. <A
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HREF="x36.html#AEN43"
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>Why would anyone want to do that?</A
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>3.3. <A
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>Do you have to ``destroy and reinstall?''</A
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>3.4. <A
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HREF="x36.html#AEN53"
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>How long will it take?</A
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>4. <A
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>Write down everything you do.</A
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>5. <A
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>Make a full backup of the existing system.</A
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>6. <A
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>Back up /etc and its subdirectories on one or more floppies.</A
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>7. <A
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>Make separate backups of each group of files you want to preserve.</A
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>8. <A
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>Prepare root and boot floppies for the new
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installation.</A
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>9. <A
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>Format floppies for the temporary kernel and the final
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build.</A
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>10. <A
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>Inhibit logins and back up the /root and /home trees.</A
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>11. <A
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>Boot from the new installation's boot and root
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floppies.</A
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>12. <A
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>Delete the linux partitions with fdisk and recreate
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them.</A
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>13. <A
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>Run the new linux installation.</A
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>14. <A
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>Restore configuration data to the /etc directory and
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subdirectories.</A
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>15. <A
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>Configure and rebuild the linux kernel.</A
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>16. <A
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>Restore the stuff from the backups you made earlier.</A
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>Review security.</A
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>Enable logins.</A
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>Sorry, but once again:
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<EM
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>USE THIS INFORMATION AT YOUR OWN RISK!</EM
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>Acknowledgements</A
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